Saturday, October 11, 2008

How Small Businesses Can Reduce Operating Costs by Utilizing Windows Virtual Private Server (vps) Hosting Solutions

Most small business owners and new startups find it hard to raise the capital the needed for the hardware, networking, licenses and staff required to operate in today’s connected business world were solutions like Microsoft Exchange, SQL, SharePoint and CRM’s are now a part of almost every business.

As small business owners, you work pretty hard on windows desktop applications and software, sometimes for testing, other times for running applications to keep your business up, developing or running these applications in the past required windows servers within your business or hosted dedicated servers. The costs of server hardware, IT management and network infrastructure within your business can be a very costly. Most start ups or small business cannot handle such one-time or large monthly expenses to provide them with the IT infrastructure or management they require.

But luckily there is cheaper and sometimes better option to use Windows VPS Hosting. Windows VPS hosting providers such as ResellerChoice you can retain all the power you would get from windows dedicated servers but only pay a fraction of the cost. For example, if you have multiple windows servers in your office they tend to take up a lot of room, power and management. You can make a simple change or start to convert your current dedicated servers into Windows VPS servers instantly. This will start and reduce operational costs and hardware costs.

Windows VPS hosting providers can offer you reduced cost, simply by creating virtual multiple windows servers on a single physical server. With this advanced technology, you can run your multiple windows servers from a remote desk top session, running your applications and software as needed with full administrator and consol access. You can create private networks or complete virtual clusters of servers or load balanced geographically diverse servers all at a fraction of the costs.

Windows VPS hosting providers using Microsoft such as ResellerChoice offer this economical solution to help small businesses run the multiple servers that are often required at a fraction of the cost of dedicated hardware. Microsoft has released new technology, called Hyper-V, which comes as a key feature with Windows Server 2008 and continues to be the talked about in the IT world as possible contender in a world once powered by VMware and Linux.

With Windows VPS hosting solutions you still get all the great benefits of having multiple windows servers. You get root and administrator access, terminal server/RDP and select from any Windows OS you prefer. It’s really everything you need and would expect from your old servers but with windows VPS hosting you won’t need the dedicated hardware on site and just have one small monthly fee.

The system that Windows has created uses isolation of partitions to separate sections of the server. While there will be one root partition running on a Windows Server 2008, the technology of Hyper-V will allow the server to create ‘child partitions’. These child partitions act as individual servers but running off one server. The child partitions don’t have access to the hardware directly. Rather, these partitions simply get a view of the hardware, and it’s more in a virtual environment.

Now windows hosting providers and take a single server and split the costs among two or more customers allowing each customer to now pay less by sharing the costs of the physical host server.
So, it can work, but you’re a business, and what you want to know about is cost. For small businesses, plans for windows vps servers running this new technology are actually rather low in cost. You can compare prices and many windows vps hosting starting as low as $60. That’s great savings compared to buying multiple servers, which can cost several hundred, to several thousand dollars a month. If your bottom line is important to you, you’ll want to talk with a hosting service that can tell you how you can save money and still keep your server system, as you need it.

In the small business world, saving money is just as important as making money. When you can reduce your need for dedicated servers hosted in in-house into windows virtual servers it can save you money by increasing your bottom line. Switching to a Windows VPS hosting solution is very simple.

When you want to save money and improve performance, consider this solution that has changed how small businesses do business.


ResellerChoice is a private windows solutions provider located in Shrewsbury, New Jersey, USA. ResellerChoice is a leader in and windows dedicated servers including low cost managed professional IT services and reseller web hosting.

Wednesday, August 6, 2008

Error Fix: Failed to start worker process: The extended attributes are inconsistent. (0x800700FF).

If you are getting the error below:

Log Name: Microsoft-Windows-Hyper-V-Worker-Admin
Source: Microsoft-Windows-Hyper-V-Worker
Date: 6/5/2008 8:36:30 PM
Event ID: 17040
Task Category: None
Level: Error
Keywords:
User: NETWORK SERVICE
Computer: VM.expta.com
Description:The authorization store could not be initialized from storage location 'msxml://C:\ProgramData\Microsoft\Virtual Machine Manager\HyperVAuthStore.xml'. Error: General access denied error (0x80070005).

Log Name: Microsoft-Windows-Hyper-V-VMMS-Admin
Source: Microsoft-Windows-Hyper-V-VMMS
Date: 6/5/2008 8:36:44 PM
Event ID: 15500
Task Category: None
Level: Error
Keywords:
User: SYSTEM
Computer: VM.expta.com
Description:'EDGE STD x64' failed to start worker process: The extended attributes are inconsistent. (0x800700FF). (Virtual machine ID 118D4321-2B6D-4DE3-B1F0-E55BCD1DCD60)


FIX:

Uninstall and reinstall the local VMM 2008 Local Agent to fix.

Why use Windows VPS servers?

Windows Virtual dedicated servers (VPS) offer similar features to dedicated servers at a much lower cost.

A Windows VPS Server is useful for companies and individuals that run higher-traffic Web sites, complex applications or require customized environments that cannot be provided in shared hosting but do not wish to have the overhead cost of dedicated hardware.

With the release of Hyper-V and Windows 2008 server windows entered the VPS market with a winning product and is giving VMWare and others a run for there money. ResellerChoice was the first providers to publicly offer true Hyper-V Windows VPS servers for developers and application providers starting at $59/mth.

Sunday, July 27, 2008

ResellerChoice First To Releases Windows 2008 VPS Servers

ResellerChoice releases Windows 2008 VPS server hosting plans running on Hyper-V that come preloaded with free software by SmarterTools and DotNetPanel.

ResellerChoice, a leading provider of windows hosting services, today announced the availability of Windows 2008 VPS Servers that cater to hosting companies and developers looking to add windows 2008 services or develop custom applications on the new windows 2008 server platform. ResellerChoice’s Windows 2008 VPS plans start at $59.95 per month and include free software by SmarterTools and DotNetPanel with additional add-on management plans. They can be ordered from their website at http://www.resellerchoice.com

ResellerChoice’s windows 2008 VPS Servers can also be resold by customers looking to step into the Windows VPS market without the overhead of management and hardware since all services provided by ResellerChoice are fully unbranded.

“We have always avoided offering VPS hosting plans in the past but with the release of Windows 2008 Hyper-V this has given us the ability to provide a powerful and reliable windows VPS hosting platform to our customers . In addition we are proud to be one of the first providers to go live with Windows 2008 VPS plans running on Hyper-V . " Says Rob Conley CEO of ResellerChoice “ We have added new hardware and network capacity to support our Windows VPS hosting servers with our recent expansion in Peer1 NYC and expect to expand our VPS offerings to Texas and Seattle locations by the end of the year. “


Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V allows you to make use of your windows server hardware investments by consolidating multiple server roles as separate windows virtual machines (VMs) running on a single physical machine. With Hyper-V, you can also efficiently run multiple different operating systems—Windows, Linux, and others—in parallel, on a single server, and fully leverage the power of x64 computing.

ResellerChoice is a premier Microsoft windows based Reseller hosting and managed dedicated hosting provider that has been in business since 2001 and operates out of datacenters in Texas, Seattle and New York City.

For additional information contact ResellerChoice staff at (888) 828-8820 or visit ResellerChoice at http://www.resellerchoice.com